I so wish the electorate had chosen chaos with Ed Miliband back in the day 😢

Starmer could not have asked for a stronger set of reasons for putting up taxes to fund defence spending than the demented Mango Mussolini in the White House, the fact that Europe needs to bolster our defence in lieu of the US, and the ongoing cyber threat from Russia and China. But no. Ffs.

@iandunt.bsky.social is spot on with this article. Frightening times. From the I-paper: apple.news/Ao5aiHAl_T_G...

Long but magnificent. ifloz.substack.com/p/iran-has-n...

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

Another excellent article from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A painful, biting reminder of the legacy of the Brexit vote. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

God, it’s an absolute bloody shitshow.

Ffs. I’m not even American but the amount of sickness emanating from that man is doing my head in. It needs to be stopped.

I just can’t get over how pathetic Starmer is. And I had such high hopes for a Labour government! And this is what we get after a 15 year wait.

Just a few more facts needed. Any minute now we’ll have enough facts.

He’ll abstain. It’s practically nailed on. Disastrous.

Utterly spineless. Pathetic.

He sounds drunk. And demented.

Nooo…! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

Nigel Farage’s great project is to destroy the country he claims to love - The i Paper Frightening to think Farage is so close to power.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I know I’m late to the party but just wanted to say—the reason Farage won’t apologise is because he sees it as weakness, whereas his whole shtick depends on his ‘strong leader’ image. But it’s deeper than that. Psychologically I think he’s a very damaged man. Why? Who knows.

I’m cautiously encouraged by the amount of audience applause when Daisy Cooper and Zack Polanski spoke on #BBCQT last night. Surprised actually.

God, Zia Yusuf is an arrogant, rude person. Insulting a member of the QT audience!

For the record, the Tories, Labour and Reform are a disgrace on immigration. The dehumanising language, the inflation of the problem into something existential. It’s bloody ridiculous. Thank god for Daisy Cooper and Zack Polanski talking humane sense. #BBCQT

Everyone's from Africa, even the Welsh and the Cornish.

Now is the time to speak up and stand up for who we are and who we are not.

Update: Apologies I was due to be on Have I got News for You this week. We've now postponed until 2026. To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social doing what every other damned journalist worth their salt should be doing, and damning Farage’s vile antisemitism out of his own words.

Starmer on Brexit: “The Brexit vote was a fair, democratic expression.” Also Starmer: “Wild promises were made to the British people. And not fulfilled.” The promises were undeliverable and based on lies, so in what sense was it a fair expression?? It was a huge mistake: DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

Yep. As a ‘customer’ of AJM in Portsmouth, I can confirm every detail of this. Dreadful company. Long delays, poor communications. Not fit for purpose. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Motability users are no fraudsters - Labour will pay for hurting disabled people - The i Paper Agree with this article. Attacking motability will not help anyone.

Starmer: “That is why I am asking the business secretary, Peter Kyle, to tackle the type of pointless gold-plating and unnecessary red tape that add to costs and get in the way of our industrial strategy” If I had a pound for every time I’ve heard this pledge….

The fiasco of the Your Party launch makes Change UK—remember them?—seem sombre and statesmanlike.

The past decade has seen grave threats and unmistakable decline. But the past few days and weeks reveal that we have entered in a new and more perilous chapter here in the U.S. It must be a call to a new kind of action. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

Government by tabloid. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The incompetence of Starmer's Labour succinctly exposed by Jamie Driscoll. The farce of Labour's behaviour could be taken out of a Monty Python script. Labour has just betrayed its 2024 manifesto completely www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

I wrote to my Labour MP about the retrospective change to the 5-year path to settlement for care workers, amongst others, who are already here, which is deeply unfair. I got back a standard lot of drivel which didn’t address my concerns at all. And people wonder why politicians have a bad rep. 🤬

"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all." My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away. Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

@goodlawproject.org Re the retrospective nature of the govt’s new migration rules for people on care visas who are not yet eligible for ILR, is there a chance of judicial review along the lines of the 2008 HSMP vs Secretary of State judgment which struck down an attempt to backdate new rules?

Of course people are fleeing Britain – we're narrow-minded and selfish - The i Paper Truth.

Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite. (Note also the line about pronouncing his name.) www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

@alfdubs.bsky.social It was genuinely moving to hear Lord Dubs on Radio 4 this morning, talking with compassion about refugees—such a refreshing difference from the vile rhetoric we heard in the Commons yesterday.

Not in my name, Starmer.

Well done, Labour. I mean, really. You’ve fucking outdone yourself this time.

The Guardian: Starmer braced for backlash from Labour MPs as Mahmood sets out asylum plans – UK politics live — If the backlash amounts to anything more than a handful of backbenchers, then I just don’t see how Starmer can survive. And nor should he. This is a disgusting policy.

Mahmood’s right about divisive rhetoric damaging the country. The problem is that they’re actually buying into it and giving it legitimacy. I’m utterly sickened by this.

Thank god there are still voices like Stella Creasy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Absolutely horrifying. This, from a LABOUR government. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Horrifying.

Yeah, that's pretty close to my view.

I don’t know about you guys but I’ve spent most of the day feeling slightly sick at the thought of what our so-called ‘Labour’ government are planning to do on immigration.

For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable. A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.

From The Sunday Times: “The home secretary argued that for too long those being granted asylum have ended up spending a lifetime in Britain. “ What the actual fuck?

I have always backed Starmer – until now - The i Paper @iandunt.bsky.social is, as usual, spot on. It’s so depressing.